http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/tags/iyl2015 en http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/content/accelerators-celebrating-international-year-light <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="https://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/hl-hlc" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="/sites/accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/files/icons/new%20icons/hil%20new.png" style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center; width: 48px; height: 38px; float: left;" /></a> <span style="color:#116699;"><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;">Accelerators celebrating the International Year of Light<br />  </strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">by Agnes Szeberenyi (CERN)</span></p> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/files/pictures/issue%2013/year%20of%20light.png" style="width: 520px; height: 293px;" /><br /><em><span style="font-size:12px;">Luminous collisions at CERN to promote the year of light</span><br /><span style="font-size:11px;">Image credit: CERN</span></em></p> <p class="rtejustify"><strong>The year 2015, a century after the publication of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity in 1915, has been proclaimed the International Year of Light and light-based technologies by the UN General Assembly. </strong></p> <p>‘Light as luminosity’ is the theme of the CERN celebrations on the occasion of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). CERN is organizing a series of public events that are broadcasted online, and archived. Follow the webcasts for upcoming and past events <a href="http://cern.ch/go/light" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/60169" target="_blank">Read the viewpoint of prof. Lucio Rossi</a>, the Leader of the High Luminosity LHC on the “luminous” celebrations.</p> <p>Also visit the <a href="http://light2015blog.org" target="_blank">International Year of Light blog</a> for more inspirational stories, not only on accelerators. </p> <p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://home.web.cern.ch/2015-international-year-light" target="_blank"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Read more &gt;&gt;</span></em></strong></a></p> <p class="rteright"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><a href="mailto:?subject=Interesting article in Accelerating News&amp;body=Check this article out: http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/content/accelerators-celebrating-international-year-light"><img alt="" src="/sites/accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/files/pictures/general%20photos/email%20icon.jpeg" style="width: 27px; height: 27px;" /></a>   </span> <a class="twitter-share-button" data-hashtags="AcceleratingNews" href="https://twitter.com/share"><span style="color:#0000FF;">Tweet</span></a> </p> <script> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); //--><!]]> </script></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/hilumi-lhc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">HiLumi LHC</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/hl-lhc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">HL-LHC</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/light-and-luminosity" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">light and luminosity</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/iyl2015" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">IYL2015</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/issue-13" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">issue 13</a></div></div></div> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:59:07 +0000 Livia Lapadatescu 204 at http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/content/accelerators-celebrating-international-year-light#comments